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GREAT idea Glenn, No offfense to anyone, but this one wandered WAY off the title (not that the detours were unimportant or anything !!!)... Chuck Glenn Ericson wrote: > I for one get so much E Mail between the lists, Y2K stuff > and personal that it is necessary to be selective and delete > or read by title or sender. > > Now the content under this title . > Subject: Re: "Filibuster or just blustering" with > Has lost its meaning . > > Might I suggest we all try to keep the title to match the subject. > > Glenn > ============================================= > >Date: Mon, 18 May 1998 14:49:46 -0400 > >From: Larry Bolhuis <lbolhui@ibm.net> > >Organization: Arbor Solutions, Inc > >To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com > >Subject: Re: "Filibuster or just blustering" with > > >Dean, > >> > >> Well, the space provided wasn't (quite) adequate for me ;-)! We did have a > >> _little_ problem with two programs (out of 500) that were calling one of > our > >> date functions with a numeric parameter of the wrong length (15,5 vs. 8,0). > >> The fell over with a DDE on the RISC box, while functioning fine for > _YEARS_ > >> on CISC. A nit, but could have been a real problem had the source been > >> lost... > > > > Actually I have had problems with date specific program as well during > >conversions, but this is really not a CISC-RISC issue as much as a Y2K > >conversion issue. The problem crops up because two things are being > >changed at once. (CISC-RISC and issues related to Y2K) > > > > - Larry Bolhuis > > Arbor Solutions, Inc > > lbolhui@ibm.net > >+--- > > Glenn > ___________________________________________________ > Glenn Ericson, Phoenix Consulting > P O Box 701164 East Elmhurst NY 11370-3164 USA > Phone 718 898 9805 Fax 718 446 1150 > AS/400 & Year 2000- - Solutions Specialists > © 1998 copyright, all rights reserved > ____________________________________________________ > > > +--- > | This is the Midrange System Mailing List! > | To submit a new message, send your mail to MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com. > | To unsubscribe from this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-UNSUB@midrange.com. > | Questions should be directed to the list owner/operator: david@midrange.com > +--- +--- | This is the Midrange System Mailing List! | To submit a new message, send your mail to MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com. | To unsubscribe from this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-UNSUB@midrange.com. | Questions should be directed to the list owner/operator: david@midrange.com +---
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